Do the majority of iMac owners use the "Ethernet cable" or connect wireless?

It's a nice change coming over from a bulky old windows PC the iMac can actually connect to the Internet wirelessly. I was thinking at the same time speeds obviously areceffected by being wireless though right? Do most people just use their Ethernet cable?

It is a desktop afterall I think once I get it moved into my office ill hook it up via the Ethernet cable.

Ethernet has a lower latency than WiFi. When you play online games you will notice a lower ping for example when using ethernet. While browsing the web you might notice websites loading a tiny bit faster.

You will most likely not notice any difference in download or upload speed unless you have a very fast connection.

That said, I do run wireless, but if I could do so easily I'd be wired 100% of the time.

When I got my rMBP, I ran it wireless and noticed that I was saturating the bandwidth when I surfed, ran a TM backup and was playing music off my NAS. Copying files to my NAS was significantly slower as well.

In the end, I decided to buy the thunderbolt to ethernet adapter because I was noticing a significant degradation.

When I got my rMBP, I ran it wireless and noticed that I was saturating the bandwidth when I surfed, ran a TM backup and was playing music off my NAS. Copying files to my NAS was significantly slower as well.

In the end, I decided to buy the thunderbolt to ethernet adapter because I was noticing a significant degradation.

There was also a bug with the 2011 MBPs where you could have more than 300 ms latency to your own base station. Fortunately that was fixed with an update, but I'll always use Ethernet for anything "serious". After all, if I'm at my desk then the cable's there.

When I got my rMBP, I ran it wireless and noticed that I was saturating the bandwidth when I surfed, ran a TM backup and was playing music off my NAS. Copying files to my NAS was significantly slower as well.

In the end, I decided to buy the thunderbolt to ethernet adapter because I was noticing a significant degradation.

I am running wireless out the box right now but wait a minute, in order to hook the iMac to Ethernet I need an adapter?

I'm a new Mac owner so this is all new to me wow it really is so different from windows need adapters for everything

the only advantage I can think of is Ethernet connection is not encrypted so the computer does not have to decrypt the data as it comes in... assuming you have the encryption enabled on your router so only you can access your router and not the entire neighborhood... but obviously the decryption in today's computers is very fast hence you don't notice much of a performance penalty if any..

home is that so long as I have the wireless well configured (which is a big if) I notice zero difference in internet speed/performance between ethernet and wireless. Speedtest results are the same. The transfer of data on my home network, on the other hand, is faster via ethernet as compared to wireless.

My understanding has been that the typical high speed internet cable connection is generally the slow link or bottleneck, not the wireless or ethernet network connection and my experience bears that out.